think this idiot president or winning over the syrian army. will realize that only diplomacy and political processes can be sure and the way the country is at the moment is diplomacy and talking to find a resolution really feasible now is it just too late. it's never too late what we're talking about the. history of it means it's never actually damages big definitely but but it's never a thought that's what i'd like to ask you just briefly and finally the syrian rebels who may well be facing war crime accusations after that shocking video showing the apparent brutal massacre of at least ten captured short soldiers just how might that affect the global attitude towards the syrian opposition. hoping it will affect the public opinion the governments i fortunately have been sending one wrong message after the other. if it was to be supported this is the first video we seen them before slaughtering people and throwing people off and we get horrible

stuff why you the first time that this is getting attention that's a very important question dr ali mohamed editor in chief of the syria tribune we appreciate you joining us live here on r.t. thank you thank you. the people of bahrain were banned this week from organizing public gatherings but it didn't stop hundreds of pro-forma stream keeping their message alive as a result their peaceful rally faced riot police tear gas and buttons former opposition m.p. photos thinks that the government has no real intentions of stopping the torture or killing its people. this is against seventeen of the constitution and it is against the international act of political and civil rights which is part of the local law actually over the past have. three shows were very peaceful is that over the last month saloon people who were killed by the government. and also lots of people. in the.

government has a five billion dollars just recently from the countries just to support of. atrocities. from bahrain to kuwait now where the ban on public gatherings was defined by protesters with reports of thousands of demonstrating against new voting rules it's a peaceful rally but police still resorted to stun grenades and smoke bombs chair political analyst eric draitser joins me now protesting q.e.d. usually described as peaceful so why do you think the government is actually prohibited gatherings of more than twenty people and threatening heavy consequences . well i think the answer is quite simple and that is that the government is carol look at the protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain and we see the same around the arab world more generally and kuwait

looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining our maintaining control of that country unless they're able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition could be really see the momentum grow in this actually turn into a full scale rebellion. well rebellion revolution reform i mean i think that it's it's degrees between the separate does this distinctly different phenomenon but i do think that the winds of change it certainly come to kuwait to oman into many of these other countries in the g.c.c. states that really kind of still pull employee a backwards mode of political organization that is to say essentially sheetal monarchy the people of kuwait are not asking for anything terribly excessive all they're asking for is representation within the parliament and parliamentary rule and this is of course anathema to what these monarchs the absolute monarchs the emir's want is a region so these changes will in no way appease the people but actually provoke

them. where you have because what has actually happened is that the government in kuwait has made it more difficult if not entirely impossible for any other opposition parties to gain a foothold in power in the country so essentially monopolizing control of the hands of the saw family and the circles that surround them and maintaining control of the country that way essentially a form of despotism. situation striking similarities with bahrain which i was just talking about a little earlier before we spoke to you especially when it comes to getting any international attention or help why is that. very simple these are client states of the united states bahrain as is the u.s. fifth fleet the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in both wars against iraq kuwait is very much dependent on saudi arabia and the united states and so all of this is part of a geo political calculus of the us hegemony us does not want to see its control

over the region slip away by something as piddling as the democratic aspirations of the people that look the region so with that western support there's no way we will see any change in the people really want and those countries. the only way that you'll see it is by. mass movements that develop in the streets they can actually bring down these governments the marquis's they control saudi arabia and some but the other gulf kingdoms these are very tenuous their control their hold on power rather is very tenuous they do not enjoy support of the vast majority of the people but rather they enjoy the support of those groups within those countries that benefit from that however the sheep in a minority in the provinces of saudi arabia who are the minority really all throughout the country in bahrain and in kuwait these groups are now getting bigger voice and what we're seeing post arab spring is the development of these democracy democracy movements and those have the possibility of

a real revolution in this country is a revolution it could topple a monarchy and change the order of those nations. the analysts for stop imperialism dot com thank you for joining us live from new york thank you. spain and italy as promised is this we did not get there on the verge of asking for a bailout in madrid on monday the two leaders also criticized germany's plan for an e.u. board to police national budgets and punish those with large deficits both italy and spain are in a severe recession with record unemployment and have seen massive protests over spending cuts the spanish media did admit though that his country may need a bailout sometime in the future here economists you have been of believes the cash would come at the cost of independence. it's one of two things you either have to accept the fact that you will lose sovereignty. or you will have major problems in terms of the continuity of this monetary union so if you need money it's in the vital that those who lend you in the money starts interfering with your policies so

it may sound a little bit brutal or maybe a little bit undemocratic but that's the way things work if you really are in need of that much money for that long period of time it's in a vice. that you give up some of your sovereignty and as a matter of fact to make this monetary union work in a structural and durable way every state involved in this euro zone in this monetary union in europe will have to accept this principle. the main players are set to square up to britain calling on it to decide if it really wants to stay part of the club it's after this week's bruising for prime minister david cameron his own m.p.'s turned on him and sided with the opposition in a vote urging a cut to the yearly payments to fund the e.u. it had been promised to warn the political rebellion could see britain isolated within the bloc cameron's conservatives and using it to push for the people to choose whether to quit. and inflation increase on the budget would equate

to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty and at a time when u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim its very large budget and i think it's politically smart for the government to actually be in touch with public opinion majority of people in the united kingdom have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy let the british people have their voice heard. in britain right now are trying to buy a home or sort of a business is a tough task with the big banks having seized up and keeping the cash to themselves but not everyone's going to let their community grind to

a halt nor smith has been to meet the one man bank. thank you. thank you dave this week is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown of burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank it is late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my many customers are coming along to me to get funded for their bosses as they have done for the last fifteen years but all. overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have a done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill or form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought arland of them so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he

offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses and he profits go to charity. but there just isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank made in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand to a saving with. rush where highly leveraged against a list of. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and

the one percent pockets unimaginable bonuses instead local banks for local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the megabucks and mega banks stepped in and dave still taking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest in real productive activity to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way the bank currently works in his comic. kind of crazy way showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forward there's certainly got to be some way forwards as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the sayings i use a lot of people who rob banks go to person banks who real people get paid bonuses

that has to stop laura smith r.t. birmingham. you've been watching the weekly on r.t. after the break how the world looks from latin america regular its president talks to r.t. . the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest to hear in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of life while stalking as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. of. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature

makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forests or nets and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easy to work. with in autumn it's impossible to find

human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they've twelve's the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now as they started city for more whole forest legislation so assumes the pals and so on we've got the new forest court and according to close up in your law every four us that serves the guys in waltham in the in the forest through the still the forest courts deal doesn't work just do what should we do with no one

tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live after us do. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. well . science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. when a president which is much less i think you mr president for taking that sign recently

chavez won the presidential election in venezuela and stayed in office and here you go the people of nicaragua reelected you for another term it does this mean that socialism has proved its viability and is now established in latin america will. the near liberal model has failed in a. when i heard capitalism reach the highest stage where it was expected to resolve all the economic and social problems overnight resolve the problems of unemployment and poverty with this model failed it failed not only in latin america it is also failing in developed economies as it was today we see it failing in the us and europe this is why people in our part of the world gladly embrace the idea of a radical change in our country's need sovereignty and independence in every area political independence is impossible without social and economic independence today a new reality is gradually emerging in latin american and caribbean nations and

they have more freedom today to determine their future president hugo chavez is a recent victory will definitely help latin america and the caribbean to continue on the path of change was this was that of the following that sampling of president fernando hoover and during white there was speculation that we're into a new era of how likely do you consider such a scenario today. in america in fact we in latin america have never managed to make coups a thing of the past and i'm afraid this might never happen and i believe there will be an implicit threat of a coup as long as the conservative forces in the united states take interest in disrupting any development aimed at upsetting the current global hierarchy these forces in the gauger local groups in our countries in covert activities and we've seen it happen across latin america and the caribbean will say you think there's a connection between miliband bag why the attempted coup inadequate or an animal

that's rico in hundred yes that is a fact that there's a lot of take the attempt at overthrowing president chavez in venezuela in april two thousand and two for example next came a coup in honduras aimed at hampering the development of a unified latin. erica then there was an explicit and very forceful attempt at a coup in bolivia aimed against president evo morales then there was an attempted coup against the president or rafael correa in ecuador and most recently the plot to force the paraguayan president out of power i think this will remain and place it threat but it will gradually losing ability over time due to the rising drive for change that we've seen gaining momentum in latin america this movement is based on respect for the will of the people and this is what will make coups increasingly harder to pull off time after time yet we shouldn't rule out such a possibility altogether not as long as we remain at all as well it forces that

strive for global domination and believe that the world is supposed to bend the knee to them but they still don't realize that we no longer live in an era of had germany so there will remain a hitler late in the minutes for the time being when. in july two thousand and twelve the national assembly of nicaragua adopted a law to build a canal that would connect the caribbean to the pacific this would not merrily give a boost to the nicaraguan economy but actually promote you can change to one of the region's reaches economies when is the canal scheduled for completion. indeed a vision of such a canal goes back as long as the history of nicaragua for five centuries you know nobody. ever since the spanish conquest on their own great britain rival it with spain for control of iraq are thinking there was a natural motorway here it's sort of existed by way of the san juan the river that springs from lake nicaragua but one section was missing a canal across the narrow isthmus of reverse. because of that our country ended up

in the middle of geo political disputes and became a target for us expansionist policies nicaragua and most of all independence after the us invasion but what's important here is that this project has always been on the books with good i want to over a century ago the americans themselves looked into building a canal in nicaragua but then they decided to invest in the panama canal early but once we became independent we revisited this with it and now we're working to make it real and our canal would not serve to substitute the panama canal but rather to complement it there's similar logic here is in urban planning the more roads you have in your city the better the traffic we're looking at providing our region with two major waterway routes instead of all of this would it haunts the region's transit capabilities bring down transit costs and thus benefit global trade in

general serving not just our own interests as an economy to those of the entire international community will support for nicaragua it would also mean independence giving us access to resources and the kind of revenues that would enable us to become entirely self-sufficient as of now we're a dependent economy there's nothing wrong with interdependence and complementarity but one way dependency is bad for anyone so when will nicaragua finally get its chance. very soon i hope that there is a lot of work being done chinese companies are in charge of the project and we expect it to be accomplished rather quickly is that you know if this year the united states has thurman aided its aid commitment the nicaragua how has that affected your country. want to go or what nicaragua is highly vulnerable that's an economy that throughout our history our economy has suffered at the hands of the u.s. and its policies the city of grenada for example that was burned to the. ground falling

prey to america's expansionist policies all those wars and military invasions the us has sponsored or provoked on there has even been a ruling by the international court of justice binding the united states to compensate michael right over for all our losses but the us has ignored this verdict over of course the fact that the us has terminated what they call aid to nicaragua has had negative consequences for our people and our country but in reality that was no way that what the americans call aid was really tiny installments in payment of the enormous debt the us owed to nicaragua it was no aid no cooperation that was merely an allowance they paid us with passing it for aid and co-operation with their work and it came with tight conditions attached to the world so we cannot talk of nicaragua as a sovereign and independent nation as long as we remain critically dependent upon the united states and its current political trends its prevalent frame of mind and

the amount of influence radical groups enjoy there at any given moment of time because those are the groups that largely determine us foreign policies they are the ones who contest in court all u.s. cooperation programs will be the nicaragua and even call for using force against latin american nations at the desk to hand up for our independence but that is why terminating any form out of cooperation is bound to have and negative impact on nicaragua that is exactly what makes it so important for us to ensure that our nation should no longer be dependent upon this sort of conditional cooperation with either the united states well the european union the u.s. has essentially pursued a policy of racket or these are very nicaragua and its people this is unfair and undemocratic they're not supporting liberty they're promoting servitude this is

what prompts us to get the canal done as soon as possible it would relieve us of our present dependency upon the u.s. and we wrote and they're hedging monic policies well over a month ago the united states is all set for a presidential election where nicaragua's expectations in this regard. i believe this is an election where the american people should vote for their government to commit itself to a peaceful foreign policy agenda that is what i see as most important and the best thing the united states can do for the world is pursue peace not war or a policy of peace would enable us to be more successful in addressing its domestic as well as global economic challenges provide it up or they choose to seek an alternative to the neo liberal plan a sense of what they were predominant among capitalist economies in recent years ago and have proved to be such a failure when autumn and. what do you idea of perfect world what already seen it

for latin america in the united states or russia. in the them i'm sure we're already heading that way despite efforts from certain forces to prevent this kind of a change i mean the american far right who won't even tolerate a president such as barack obama they denounce him merely because of his african origins and the color of skin yet these forces grow weaker with time the same is happening in europe as the reality itself sends a signal to the nations that used to feel like they ruled the world until recently but telling them the world can no longer go on with demonic how to check and it was reality that has shaped the world what we know today as a multi-polar world and regardless of whether hedge monic powers choose to move along with the rest of the world where the world favors a multi-polar ity and we are moving in that direction we hope those in power in the world's most advanced economies will finally realize that the path they had been

following thinking it to be a path toward peace stability growth and development has eventually brought them to the verge of disaster and they're the ones heading towards a cliff in the past they used to drive us toward self-destruction this time they are themselves. on a plane to go house their only option is to change themselves and to that end they need to evolve and to promote a world order that would be in line with international law un principles and the knolls of international trade in a multi-polar well so you believe this is reality rather than wishful thinking it is reality but i'm sure that we already see it happening mr president thank you for your time with us thank you.

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